(b) any person acting on behalf of another person who cannot act on his own behalf; We must protect a natural person`s personal data in order to protect them from harm. Legal persons also need this protection. There are different types of damage that a person may suffer, but not all types of damage apply to legal persons. One area where a legal entity is likely to suffer harm is financial harm. Under Roman law, the only persons to whom rights and obligations were granted were natural persons. The concept was developed in Romano-Dutch law to involve legal persons. (ii) systems of personal and family law governed by any tradition or respected by persons professing a particular religion. (i) are not suitable for a person of the age of that child; or (4) Whenever this section requires that information be given to a person, the information shall be given in a language that the person understands. (a) To vote in the elections of every legislative body established by the Constitution, excluding the law; and (a) the life of the nation is threatened by war, invasion, general insurrection, disorder, natural disasters or other public emergencies; and as a discipline, personal law is part of South Africa`s positive law or of the norms and rules that order the conduct or misconduct of citizens. [3] [4] Objective law differs from law in the subjective sense, which is “a network of legal relationships and disorder between legal subjects”[5] and deals with rights[6][7] or “the right that a legal person has over an object of law”. [5] These relationships can be divided into two main types: we have already pointed out the fact that South Africa is different when it comes to the protection of the personal data of legal persons.

But what does it mean for you when dealing with data controllers or subcontractors in other countries who don`t protect them? How do others protect the personal data of legal entities that you share with them? This leads to further questions about the transfer of personal data abroad, the adequacy levels of countries and the processing of the processing of personal data of legal persons in a data protection authority. (b) any information in the possession of another person which is necessary for the exercise or protection of rights. A legal person has a legal personality distinct from that of the persons who created it. For example, a company may take legal action on its own behalf; a mutual would have rights and obligations distinct from those of its members; A university could have duties to its employees. etc. For a full discussion of legal personality, see Jones & Buckle: The Civil Practice of the Magistrate`s Courts in South Africa` Ninth Edition. Volume II Rule 6 of the Regulations and comments thereon. Most data protection laws around the world, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU, do not extend data protection rights to legal persons.